Doclisboa seeks to imagine reality through new cinematic forms of perception, reflection and action, placing filmmaking into dialogue with its history to question the present of cinema. Doclisboa is interested in films that are rigorous about their conceptual and formal implications; films that experiment with cinema’s artistic and political possibilities and refuse to be categorized; films that engage with and mirror the complexity of the world. Doclisboa offers a ground where cinema and the contemporary are investigated as acts of being together in, and with, time.

Heart Beat

Yesterday Mitte Tomorrow

Gestern Mitte Morgen

Peter Zach

1995 • Germany • 89’

Portrait of the post-1989 alternative culture scenes coming out of the temporary autonomous zone that was Berlin’s central district of Mitte. Taking his cue from Alfred Döblin’s landmark novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, the director revisits that story’s Mitte locations and explores how artists and cultural activists engage with these spaces, both in the freedom they offered at the time and their historical legacy.

21-10-2019
21:00 • HB • 89’

Cinema São Jorge

Sala 3